Subject: Re: [RFC] cherry-pick using multiple parents to implement -x

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:00:17 -0700

"Stephen R. van den Berg" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >"Stephen R. van den Berg" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> Whereas cherry-pick would (optionally) generate a cousin reference for every
> >> commit it picks.
> 
> >Sorry for wandering into a thread in the middle.  But we've already
> >been down this road before, and decided the additional header wasn't
> >worth it from cherry-pick.  What's changed?
> 
> I'm not familiar with the old thread.  Any pointers?  (I tried googling,
> but couldn't seem to find it).

Here's at least one instance of it:

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0604/19514.html
 
There may be more instances in the archives.

-- 
Shawn.